Dusk faded to dawn. Sunlight illuminated a dusky sky. Either way it was all pretty hazy. Landing was only two hours off. He groaned. No shaving in 20 hours and no more than four hours sleep during the whole flight. Despite himself, a smile tickled his lips. He had waited so long for this day. She was the ideal woman, full of life and passion. When she smiled...
Something about this cove she had always loved was its privacy. There was a mystical quality about the whole area, so serene and so peaceful. The sky was deepening shades of blue and black with not a cloud in to spoil the view of the stars. The moon, full and brilliant in its silver radiance, climbed slowly higher. The sand was still warm from the sun, the c...
Moscow – Winter 1564 The man who would become known as Ivan the Terrible didn't have what anyone would call a charmed childhood. His father died when Ivan was the tender age of three, leaving the young child the Grand Prince of Moscow. His mother, who had done her best to protect him against the boyars who sought to use the Grand Prince for their own purpos...
Lara Croft sat in the large, plush chair, warming herself by the roaring fire. She grasped the large red book close to her chest as she nestled into a comfortable position. She looked around the room, admiring her vast array of artifacts she had obtained on many an adventure, realizing that she yearned more for the adventure, than she did for the artifacts....
Sky had led Charlie into the play room and closed the door behind them. Sky then led him to a comfortable couch that was out of the way with several soft pillows about. She had him sit while she left for a minute picking up supplies. She came back with four black cuffs and her special gem stone white collar, dainty but functional, which she place on the sofa...
It was overcast when Wesley, Gene, and myself left our little apartment on a trip through the woods. The full moon was barley giving off any light though all the dark blue clouds that drifted over our heads. It was my first trip to the cliff, a place that Wesley and Gene knew well and went to many times to drink and talk about “guy” things. Tonight it was my...
Thunder rumbled a distinct purr in the distance, and the heavy smell of rain snuffed a corner of the sun before it emerged again. "Promise I won't be scared?" Charlotte implored around the grind of her heel into the dying summer grass. Her white sneakers flashed a blinding reflective blue over the spindly yellow like pulsating alien landing lights coaxing i...
All characters in this story are age 18 or older. * Olaffsen figured out how to kill two birds with one stone. He called Christa Jackson, the choir director who'd gotten the axe in the wake of the school's program cuts. She was delighted to hear from him, even more so when he told her the reason he was calling. "Listen, Christa ... I've got a student who...
I awake before you and stretch lazily, unwrapping myself from you as my legs are entwined with yours and your arms still envelop me. I rub my eyes and marvel at the beautiful golds, oranges and reds streaming through the window as the sun starts to set. The evening air smells fresh and feels cool as it whispers over our skin, its breath caressing us and caus...
The warm morning sun started to filter through the curtains of the bedroom window, the rays chased up the side of the bed and fell on Jasmine's exposed silk slip and crept across her back. Jasmine lay there asleep with the sun warming her ever so gently, her dream had her placed in the arms of her naked lover whom held her spooned into a comfort of bliss. S...